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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do snaps make money for Canonical?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's no way to install a snap except through Canonical's snap store (or snap store proxy, which gets them from Canonical's snap store).
    They're charging for kernel security live patches. They charge for LTS. If they get enough buy-in re: snaps, they're going to do the only thing a for-profit company can do.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Red Hat and SUSE also charge for extended support, it's literally the only fucking way to make money off of a distro

    Canonical still offers 5 years standard at the enormous cost of 0.0$

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you under the impression that they write all the patches?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    No, but they actually do write some patches and they also do all the menial work, testing and verification to keep a piece of software serviceable for 10 years

    If you think it's easy, go and attempt it yourself. The greatest cure for people talking shit about needed effort, according to my experience....

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